DETROIT — Garrett Soldano, one of the Republican candidates to be Michigan's next governor, voiced opposition last month to women having abortions after becoming pregnant through rape.
Soldano's comments on a January "Face the Facts" podcast gained national attention Tuesday and spurred criticism from Democrats as lawmakers ponder what could unfold if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that created a woman's right to have an abortion.
The conservative Mattawan chiropractor said one of his mentors had looked up his birth family and discovered his birth mother had been gang raped but "she had the courage to deliver him." Soldano said he hopes that women would "recognize that God put them in this moment."
